Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this nip-&-tuck race as a drawing card, this summer's tournaments, almost all for the benefit of war charities, seem sure to add up to one of golf's richest seasons. Prizes in war bonds total a whopping $121,332, include the biggest ever offered to a first-place winner: $10,001 at the Tam O'Shanter Open in Chicago in August...
Both games were hard-fought, nip-and-tuck affairs. Both went considerably over the seven-inning limit. Monday's softball game was won with a 4 to 2 score by virtue of a two-run outburst in the eleventh inning...
...28th German plane near Copenhagen and Wing Commander J. E. Johnson got his 28th over France. Group Captain A.G. Malan is credited with 32, as was the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane. Canadian Flight Lieut. George ("Screwball") Beurling shot down 31 before he was grounded, and Wing Commander Standford Tuck had 29 when he was forced to bail out over Germany. U.S. aces had a chance to surpass any of these records, but Russian Major Alexander Pokryshkin's record of 59 was apparently safe for a long time...
...When the battle runs nip-&-tuck, "let Hitler have the headaches. Don't give them to yourself by unhygienic living. . . . Don't eat when you are tired, rest a while in a recumbent position. A day in bed on a light diet with the windows open and some light diverting reading will give relief...
...second day of the Marines' landing, while the struggle for Tarawa was still nip-&-tuck, two seasoned British Empire servants had come ashore: Lieut. Colonel Vivian Fox-Strangways, India-born, Africa-trained, Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony; and Major Francis G. I. Holland, Director of Education among the 27,000 Gilbertese. In his kit Major Holland carried a British flag...